The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-09-22

On all hands it is admitted that his
"Mary in Heaven" is the finest dirge in
the language. As mere poetical pro-
duction it deservedly ranks high. II can
be read and re-read until committed to
memory, and then repeated with pleas
uTe and profit. Here it is:
Thou lingering star with lessening ray,
That loves to greet the early morn;
Again thou usher'st in the day
My Mary from my soul was tornl
oh Mary, dear departed shaded
Where is thy place of blisstul restP
Seest thou thy lover lowly laid
Hearst thou the groans that rend his
breast?
That sacred hour, can forget?
Can forget the hallowed grove,
Where by the winding Ayr we met
To live one day of parting love?
Eternity will not efface'
Those records dear of transports past;
Thy image at our last embrace;
Ali little Thought we twas our lastl
AYR gurgling kissed his pebbled shore,
O'erhung with wildwood thicllening green
The fragrant birch, and hawthorn hoar
Twn'd amrous round the rapturd scene;
The how'r5 sprang wanton to be prest,
The birds sang love on every spray
Till too too soon, the glowing west
Proclaimed the speed OF wingd day.
And tondty hroods with miser carel
Time but tn impression stronger makes,
AS streams their channels deeper wear.
My Mary dear departed shaded
Where Is thy place of blissful rest
SeO'st thou thy lover lowly laid?
Hearst thou the groans that rend his
breast?
Rev. Mr.. Sutherland, .. P. minister at
Pesth, and his wife spent couple days
at Cadzow cottage with US. Mrs. S. is a
niece of Mrs. Leggate. Of course they
are cultured people, and Mr.. S. is ripe
scholar, well read up in Scotch litera-
ture, and a live, genial gentleman of
forty-fve. AS l write this, August "a,
we are all going to Glasgow in the
steamer Iona, and have just passed
Dumbarton.
Two days ago, accompanied with Mr.
Thomas Smith, postmaster at Dunoon,
/ "did' Paisley, the noted thread town of
this world, for there are located the great
Coates and also the Clarke's thread
manufactures, each employing over
1000 hands. The trip had been arranged
in Mr.. Smiths bookstore the Saturday
evening previous, with Mr.. John Par
lane, of the great publishing house at
Paisley, of J. & r. Parlane, who said he
would gladly show me around, as indeed
he did. He had taken the first boat up
Monday morning as business required.
OF course | took an interest in Paisley,
my grandfather, Thomas Brock, having
been born and grew up there.
In due time we found the Parlane es-
tabGshment, and were first shown
through that, after which we started out
to see the town, and for three hours or
so were on the 60, spending half an hour
or SO III the astronomical observatory,
founded bv one of the Coateses. From
the top of the observatory were pointed
out the Brses of Gleniffer and other
poiBts ,rendered famous and familiar by
the fs-e Tannahill, who lived and died
in'Paisley, and where atute of him is
seen. Wilson, poet and ornithoigist,
who died in Philadelphia fifty years or
more ago, was also Paisley man. Pals
ley is on the little river Cort, and has
10000 inhabitants. Being but seven miles
from Glasgow and three miles from the
Clyde. Its situation is not favorable for
expanding into great city.
In Scotland the only hope of freedom
was in the Kirk. The Scottish Parlia-
ment had never done much for the coun-
try, being mainly composed of mobiles
and high ecclesiastics, who only cared
for their own interests. The Kirk was
close to the people, and stood up for their
rights. They claimed civil and religious
liberty, etc. The National covenant was
the Scottish magma charta. Their toler-
alton may have been somewhat con-
tracted, according to prevailing notions
now; but, they nobly withstood the per-
secutiou under Charles ii, who, as Ma
caulay saws caused "the reign of saints
to be succeeded by the reign of strum-
pets"
l need not dwell on that time when
their worship was suppressed and force
overwhelmed them, their resistance cul-
minating at Boutwell, bridge on Sunda,',
June %, 1879 The revolution of 1888
however came, and drove away the fool
ish Stuarts forever. The years after 1879,
until the revolution that put William of
Orange on the throne, were suffering
years in which the poor Covenanters
The small body known as Cameronians
were the principal sufferers for they were
unyielding. Macaulay in his history
says: "They were easily defeated and
mercilessly punished; but neither defeat
nor punishment could subdue their
spirit. Hunted down like wild beasts,
tortured till their bones were broken fiat,
imprisoned by hundreds, hanged by
scores, exposed at one time to the elicense
of soldiers from England, abandoned at
another time to the mercy of hordes of
mountaineers from the Highlands, they
still stood at bay in mood SO savage
that the boldest and mightiest oppressor
could not but dread the audacity of their
despair"
The years 1854 and 1885 are known as
"The killing Time," being the last Of
Charles III, and first of his brother James
Ii, During these years murder stalked